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    PAGASA decommissions tropical cyclone names that cause at least 300 deaths or 1 billion Philippine pesos in damages. Names like Tropical Storm Ondoy, Super Typhoon Yolanda, Typhoon Lando, and Tropical Storm Urduja have been decommissioned for exceeding these thresholds. A name may also be changed if it is too similar to a prominent public figure to avoid ridicule, as Nonoy was changed to Nona to avoid sounding like the nickname of the then president of the Philippines.

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    PAGASA decommissions tropical cyclone names that cause at least 300 deaths or 1 billion Philippine pesos in damages. Names like Tropical Storm Ondoy, Super Typhoon Yolanda, Typhoon Lando, and Tropical Storm Urduja have been decommissioned for exceeding these thresholds. A name may also be changed if it is too similar to a prominent public figure to avoid ridicule, as Nonoy was changed to Nona to avoid sounding like the nickname of the then president of the Philippines.

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    PAGASA decommissions tropical cyclone names that cause at least 300 deaths or 1 billion Philippine pesos in damages. Names like Tropical Storm Ondoy, Super Typhoon Yolanda, Typhoon Lando, and Tropical Storm Urduja have been decommissioned for exceeding these thresholds. A name may also be changed if it is too similar to a prominent public figure to avoid ridicule, as Nonoy was changed to Nona to avoid sounding like the nickname of the then president of the Philippines.

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    Dropping certain names

    PAGASA also decommissions or drops the usage of a tropical cyclone name when it
    has met at least one of these two requirements:

     at least 300 deaths


     P1 billion worth of damage to agriculture and infrastructure

    Examples of decommissioned names include Tropical Storm Ondoy (Ketsana) in


    2009, Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) in 2013, Typhoon Lando (Koppu) in 2015, and
    most recently, Tropical Storm Urduja (Kai-tak) in 2017.

    A tropical cyclone name can also be dropped if it is closely associated with a prominent
    personality, to avoid public ridicule. For instance, PAGASA changed Nonoy to Nona in
    December 2015 because it sounded like Noynoy, the nickname of then president
    Benigno Aquino III. – Rappler.com

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